Ang Lee Quotes
It's the first movie I feel really proud of. But I know it's not a movie for everyone. Some people will embrace it, but some people will hate it, and I'm not really sure how to deal with that. In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I never got any advice in acting.
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
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Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
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Man, I love being a dad. It's super fun.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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It's the first movie I feel really proud of. But I know it's not a movie for everyone. Some people will embrace it, but some people will hate it, and I'm not really sure how to deal with that. In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
